Khutbah The Call To Denounce Killings And Violence

Mohammed Faqih

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from a

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can do it

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with

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me

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me out in

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useless

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while feeding

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the man

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Well God

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Bless America small one of the endoscope

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Why have you even been allowed to document okay we haven't shown

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Camila if

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you will

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in a minute a simpler

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method methods

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where

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you

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have an

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allele you have

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a sofa we'll talk about in a minute

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like them to either

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tell

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us about

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when

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we had the new moon

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testimony today we had a more complex ruling just about

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with the free

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work he

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had in the

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Latika crop. Let us know what you know a lot Wait a minute,

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maybe

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a year or

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what is up and

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welcome Coronavirus has in common?

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because he had

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previously had an idea with amercia. With the JIRA, within JIRA that

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will take very

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long

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for even a new cue

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yet

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to find

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a Latina

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banani

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shampoo and like the Mona bomba

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Hello America

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when I

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recently went

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and had a show

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at another woman

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I loved me to cancel

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when

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when sir

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Alicia

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olatuja

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he has a leather wallet inserted

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so I

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mean you're a

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manager

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in Omaha

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you're

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well know

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that even more sarcopenia

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well for the couple who died How heavy is

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he had no

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management

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fee fell asleep with sglf

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he had a shot

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to show everybody a nurse

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I let the young Wi

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Fi

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one

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fee of Rs 10 will add

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new field while I

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while I have

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another

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one which I

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had a shampoo or shampoo

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or shampoo.

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How the show was added to the kuna women calculator and let's

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see

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what is the outcome of the female Islam? Allah

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subhanho wa salam

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ala

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he

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might

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be imagining

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of his desire to help

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him be magnetic.

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Are you ready?

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Yes, he has a show. With a Kilner we love the

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patriarchy that he is and see

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what goes on in a day

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Yeah, he's on the show.

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We've been killing it and then when

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it's done and let the family

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in the wall there will be like they will get sad for the program.

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Mad

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and Muslim wherever you

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are you get one

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in a

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free market

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Mr.

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Goodman worldwide in a landslide

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luckiness has led to it

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nasa.

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gov

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minute

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minutes

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was mandatory as we as

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we have Thomas

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Corolla

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here here in Korea.

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One mile low calculation

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to the q&a and Mr. Moon

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out

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In the wahoo Delta

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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college we were just under what do we let him be him we would actually right to

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work at Orange electric

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Why do they

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have

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a nice happy headed me?

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Well it was that

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one not

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so long of a proper option I mean you are eligible

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under Donald Trump even if one

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sentence would violate national election because even that's removed as long

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as you have gone to the shop from the shop all the way

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to the medical

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manufac instead of waiting memory.

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Belkin Ramadan they

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are going to get the

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album in my favorite era and

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you just

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yummy have

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alanine a

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fish and

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shrimp with

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us other groups will show

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what type

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of Rupali a shape pony

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pika here

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in Emeryville shape

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Are you traveling abroad either

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in a relationship on a

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continuing basis it will

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be very solid

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with

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family

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and having a party or controlling you

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and

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physically worshipping

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Allah for the

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lead and why Audi unwearied apara and the team

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have

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been

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rocking

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it

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multi partisan systems in snap.

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It was disheartening for me to hear that when someone was asked

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about the month of Ramadan

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that that individual said Isn't this a month where Muslims kill each other.

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Now, the month of Ramadan comes

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and it comes with this great spirit of virtue. This is what the month of Ramadan is all about. I'm not saying this was how

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fasting was prescribed upon you as it was upon those who are before you know that you may attain virtue, taqwa piety, righteousness.

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This is what fasting is all about.

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And unfortunately, we find that Muslims and non Muslims

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who are ignorant

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and who have their own agendas take advantage of these days in a vicious way.

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And we find that the month of Ramadan is linked to the increase of violence

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and quote all kinds of destructive behavior.

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And there was more.

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I mean, I don't watch the news. Now during the most important one as I used it before

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But when I, when someone told me the other day someone was assassinate one of the Muslim countries.

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And just last night or two nights ago, there was another assassination,

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violence,

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terrorist.

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That issue sponsored by states.

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And that which is perpetrated and carried out on the hands of deviant ignorant Muslims who attribute whatever they do to them. One of those verses that actually caught my attention two nights ago, we decided to cancel off last night, actually a person sort of,

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well, most of our data sets can be upsetting,

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generally tell you about those who are,

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who are the worst losers when it comes to their deeds and actions, the worst

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to do here, those who go astray, their actions are

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wrong. They're way off, what

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they think that what they're doing is good.

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And this is the worst type of people. I mean, there are those who do,

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who committed wrongdoing and, and all kinds of sense while knowing that they're doing something wrong.

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Those people perhaps one day, they might be admonished they might remember they might wake up and ask you about some contractual forgiveness and feel sorry for what they have done.

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But worse than that, are those people who do what they do thinking that it's good

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while it's a reality rejected by was handled down there, the words of paper, they will come on the Day of Judgment,

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and be shocked and disappointed that all the leaves are rejected, because they were not some

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brothers and sisters,

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we are to take a step.

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The model formula

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is a month for transformation, for improvement,

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it was a month to pursue version.

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And part of pursuing virtue. And part of that transformation that we have to

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be part of

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is removing

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the causes

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of this political hypocrisy

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that whether again, it is

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adopted by states or individuals or groups.

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It is our responsibility

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to bring this transformation

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and denounce

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those, those, again, we'll call this the ground for this political hypocrisy that we see that is used.

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And in some cases, in the name of our own faith in the name of Islam,

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that is used to turn people away from a loss of power with

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that is used to violate some of the essential

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values that Islam and Africa came to establish a loss of power regardless of whether

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we have honored mankind human beings, we have honored the loss of habitat honor this, this human being as well as an attendance descendant.

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And the statement was genuine in the program.

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Unfortunately, the month of Ramadan

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is one of those periods where people get warnings all over the place, that the level of violence will increase.

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Also, which of course happens back to our countries, the Middle East,

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right, and the performer is associated with these kinds of activities. And this can be

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we read the perhaps

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in the month of Ramadan, more than any other month

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and we come across verses

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that should actually

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remind us of what matters most brothers and sisters a loss of power. For instance, one of those verses, emphasizing on the sanctity of life, human life and all kinds of life.

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When I took a little hammer off

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and do not kill,

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do not take the like, kill

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your children. Right, it says in the previous version, and then it says

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and taken off life, which goes

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He has made secret,

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except by way of justice in law.

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Life is sacred. We know in the verse

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of Surah Surah five, verse 32. God said that he who saved one mic, it is as if he has saved

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the life of saving one life.

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And this is what the month of Ramadan is all about. When we talk about hunger,

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and feeling for those people who are less fortunate, we don't have as much as we have.

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And we know that people are people in the world are starving.

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It's our obligation as Muslims to save lives.

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It is our obligation as Muslims to do acts that will

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contribute to saving lives, and improving life.

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So if anyone comes and says, well, Islam says that you can violate the sanctity of life, we say no.

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And even if that person is one of us, or looks like us are toxic,

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brothers and sisters,

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as the suffering of our Muslim brothers and sisters in the world continues, we have to take a proactive role.

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And the month of Ramadan teaches us many

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practices, many things that we can do

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to improve the situation, one of which is sort of the default, which we will talk about inshallah, next Friday. So

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that

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is another concept. And many people pay attention to those kinds of issues during the month of Ramadan. But we have to remember that there's a kindness This is an obligation, it is one of the pillars of Islam.

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So

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if you have not thought of as

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if it has been a while since you really considered fulfilling this part of this lab, which is one of the pillars of Islam,

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you know what a pillar is without that pillar, Islam does not extend.

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It is as sacred as salon fasting. And that's why, you know, I said hypocrisy earlier, because we have someone fasting, yet when it comes to the cat, or somehow they don't care, or they neglect that that is great. I say this, an answer wasn't How to Make Your nine of those, listen and follow the visit of

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a poodle.

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We are approaching the last 10 nights of Ramadan, brothers and sisters.

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I mean, this is

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the sixth day of Ramadan.

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Two weeks have passed, half of the month is gone.

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We have, the better half left. And I know like many people, unfortunately, the level of that enthusiasm and excitement that we saw at the beginning of the month, when all of a sudden the first two nights, the mercy was almost scope. People didn't care were a part of it, people did not use any kind of they did not let any excuse turn them away from coming and connecting with their body.

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But as the month continue to progress, we started noticing this decline.

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Because somehow, somehow, our old habits caught up with us. And we will not be able to live the spirit of the month of Ramadan or we will not be able to internalize

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the lessons or the principles that that the multiple God reminds us of we were not able to internalize it, and resists

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all kinds of factors that cause us to miss out on a lot of good deeds.

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Brothers and sisters, the reason I'm saying this is because we still have some time we have the better half of the month. We have the best 10 nights ahead of us. And we have to we have to catch.

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Otherwise, we will be those people who have the problems consider to be the worst of the losers and they're not losers. They weren't there to nurture

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the product set it

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in a way they probably could not imagine or understand how one could have the opportunity of the month of Ramadan

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at their disposal and not take advantage of it not get your sense by the end of this month forgiving.

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So we have the

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Last 10 nights during the nights of the whole year, and then there's

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the night of decrease.

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We have a special program for the last 10 nights, mostly it's massages.

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Mission Viejo.

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Irvine, and our center here have joint activities on the 25th and the 27th, and the 29th. Ninth.

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So take advantage of those opportunities that you have. When you come in worship in a congregation you get motivated.

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Sometimes people say no, I'm going to stay home, it's kind of annoying to deal with a parking lot issue, we come up with all different kinds with all kinds of excuses.

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So someone might say, well, isn't shaper, I don't know whether or not some people, sure enough, some people have enough excuses, that they have basically brought with them from,

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from before Ramadan against Satan excuses,

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just to discourage them from going and connecting with the loss of habitat.

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In the verses that really excite during the nights of Ramadan, one message that is repeated in many sources for artists actually apart is your enemy take you as an enemy.

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And don't let him bring you down.

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And remember that he has authority or no one except those who follow the lizard. He has authority, he has no authority or power over him.

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And one of those areas where the power is taken advantage of.

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And those opportunities, one of those areas that shavon wanted to miss out on is taken advantage of those opportunities in which you can actually get for the Cosmo must have looked at one of those the same type of experiences that some people might have is that, oh, you're going to give us a compliment? Is it enough that you pay taxes. So power when it comes to our taxes, we take care of it. But when it comes to the

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two and a half percent

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of your wealth,

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which does not actually belong to you.

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And that portion of your wealth, after a year becomes it belongs to someone else, and you have to deliver it. So powerful takeaway from this, no, don't do keep it.

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keep our promises in poverty. And I must have had a promise to do forgiveness. So brothers and sisters, let's catch up in the month of Ramadan, we still have some time,

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we still have the opportunity ahead of us.

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And let's remember what Ramadan is all about. Now we'll conclude with this very beautiful example that was given.

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I didn't want to start with this example at the beginning of the month, because I didn't want some people to just say, Yeah, you're going to this category or that category. But one of the scholars said, when it comes to the month of formula, or when it comes to fasting, people are three levels or three categories.

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You know how it

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talks about how people have three levels of stasis, three, you have three different categories of people when it comes to fasting.

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And we left out one category of people, because they are worthless.

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Reality, they're worthless. And those are the ones who do not who neglect fasting altogether without an excuse.

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So he did not even include that category, the ones that Miss on fasting, and they neglect to accidentally turn away from. And hopefully we don't have anyone who belong to that category. But as to those people who actually observed faxing, there are three, there are three types. One type

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is the type that abstain from eating and drinking.

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So they take care of that technical part. They don't eat, they don't drink, they don't engage in any act that might never fight or ruin their face, they don't do anything.

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And this is the majority of or everybody that has

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nothing special.

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The second category is a little more special.

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And that category is the one that realizes that facet is not only about staying away from those things, but it also has to do with with staying away from those things that might diminish them more effectively. So they they basically refrain from Acts from sinful acts. They stay away from wickedness, at least while they're fasting. So they don't commit sense. They don't lie. They don't steal. They don't watch something that was wrong. They don't listen to anything that is harmful. They don't engage in any of those simple as please stay away from them.

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And especially as this group of people is, many of them, however, they still have those tendencies. They have a craving, they still think about it. That heart is still attached. They're used to it, they miss it, they might even fantasize about it

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These things that they stay away from

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and they might get to the second to the to the to the to the third level the level of a very special group of people

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and that is where the person fast and refrains from even those tendencies and those desires and takes him out of his heart altogether. So, not only would they fat from eating drinking and not only with their senses and their lives, which facts of how things but also their hearts fast from everything other than the last panel

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that we had for focus during fasting becomes a lot the pleasure of the law and then forgiveness from Allah and attain establish and attain this level of piety and virtue so must have a valid make use of that category and help us capture the rest of the month

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be left the

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HR committee he is seen

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to show you where I live and then we've been killed and then when I go in my body is there and literally permanently

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in the wall there will be like for the program a triangle shape

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and Muslim wherever you

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we have Thomas

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Miranda.

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low calculate

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to the q&a. And we'll see Mona

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only one again. You

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just happen to be

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one of the

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leaders and what we've done.

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man

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what it was that no

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one knows

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some love and proper love surrounding you really do here and if you don't

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even if what

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an umbrella in a sentence provide in a national election because even that's

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really nice

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coffee or energy

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took the aspect of

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the manufacturing side hustle way

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you have the shrimp with

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so many

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other routes that I was sure

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what's

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going on because a lot of Roma Bali I say Pani

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pika here

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in the material shape on

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are you traveling abroad either

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in our leadership on a

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continual basis

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with

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family

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and having a party apart from leaving, you leave

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and

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physically

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register for the draft,

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lottery and worry

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and worry about other things

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as well.

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Data many

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multi partisan systems in snap.

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It was disheartening for me to hear that when someone was asked

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about the month of Ramadan

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that that individual said, Isn't this a month where Muslims kill each other.

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Now, the month of Ramadan comes

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and it comes with this great spirit of virtue. This is what the month of Ramadan is all about. I'm not saying this was powerful.

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Or you believe fasting was prescribed upon you as it was upon those who are before you.

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That you may attain virtue,

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hygiene, righteousness.

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This is what fasting is all about.

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And unfortunately, we find that Muslims and non Muslims

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who are ignorant

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and who have their own agendas take advantage of these days in a vicious way.

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And we find that the month of Ramadan is linked to the increase of violence

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and quote all kinds of destructive behavior.

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And there was more.

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I mean, I don't watch the news. Now during the most important one as I used it before.

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But when I when someone told me the other day someone was assassinated in one of the Muslim countries.

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And just last night or two nights ago, there was another assassination

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violence

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terrorist

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that he should sponsor by states

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and that which is perpetrated and carried out on behalf of deviant ignorant

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Muslims who attribute whatever they do to them. One of those verses that actually caught my attention two nights ago when we were deciding to cancel off last night, actually a person sort of,

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well, most of our data sets for the honeymoon or being upset in America generally tell you about those who are,

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who are the worst losers when it comes to their deeds and actions, the worst.

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And

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those who go astray, their actions are

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wrong, they're way off.

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That they think that what they're doing is good.

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And this is the worst time of people. I mean, there are those who do

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who commit wrongdoing and, and all kinds of sense while knowing that they're doing something along

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those people perhaps one day, they might be admonished they might remember, they might wake up and ask them some time for forgiveness, and feel sorry for what they have done.

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But worse than that, are those people who do what they do thinking that it's good.

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While it's a reality rejected by was handled down there, the words of people, they will come into their judgment

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and be shocked and disappointed that all of their visa rejected, because they were not some

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brothers and sisters,

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we are to take a step.

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The mother formula

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is a month for transformation, for improvement,

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it was a month to pursue Virgin

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and part of pursuing virtue, and part of that transformation that we happen to

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be part of

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is removing

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the causes

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of this political hypocrisy,

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that whether again, it is

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adopted by states or individuals or groups.

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It is our responsibility

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to bring this transformation.

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And

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those those, again, who will call this the ground for this political hypocrisy that we see that is used.

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And in some cases, in the name of our own faith in the name of Islam,

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that is used to turn people away from a loss of power.

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That is used to violate some of the essential

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values that Islam and Africa came to establish a loss of power regardless of whether

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we have honored mankind human beings, we have honored the most honor this, this human being as a family and his descendants.

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And the statement was General in the program.

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Unfortunately, the month of Ramadan

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is one of those periods where people get warnings all over the place, that the level of violence will increase.

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Also, which of course happens back countries, the Middle East,

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right, and the amount of trauma is associated with these kind of activities. And this can be

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we read the perhaps

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in the month of Ramadan, more than any other month.

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And we come across verses

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that should actually

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remind us of what matters most brothers and sisters, lots of comments like, for instance, says in one of those verses, emphasizing on the sanctity of life, human life, and all kinds of life.

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When I took

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a little hammer off,

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and do not kill,

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do not take the life kill

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your children. Right, it says in the previous version, and then it says,

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and take not life, which God has made sacred,

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except by way of justice in

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life is sacred. We know in the verse

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of Surah Surah five verse 33. a month ago God said that he will save one life. It is as if we have saved our lives. The life of saving one life

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and this is what the month of Ramadan is all

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When we talk about hunger,

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and feeling for those people who are less fortunate, we don't have as much as we have.

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And we know that people are people in the world are starving.

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It is our obligation as Muslims to save lives.

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It is our obligation as Muslims to do acts that will

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contribute to saving lives, and improving life.

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So if anyone comes and says, well, Islam says that you can violate the sanctity of life.

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And even if that person is one of us, or looks like us are toxic,

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brothers and sisters,

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as the suffering of our Muslim brothers and sisters in the world continues, we have to take a proactive role.

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And the month of Ramadan teaches us many

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practices, many things that we can do

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to improve the situation, one of which is something which we will talk about inshallah, next Friday, so

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right, there

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is another concept. And many people pay attention to those kind of issues. During the month of Ramadan, we have to remember that this is an obligation, it is one of the pillars of Islam.

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So

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if you have not thought about it,

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if it has been a while since you really considered fulfilling this part of this lab, which is one of the pillars of Islam,

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you know what a pillar is without that pillar, Islam does not extend.

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It is as sacred as solid faster. And that's why, you know, I said hypocrisy earlier, because when you have someone fasting, yet when it comes to the cat, or somehow they don't care, or they neglect that, that is great. I say this man's who was empowered to make you and I have those who listen and follow the rest of the day, listen to Apollo, and

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how

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we're approaching the last 10 nights of Ramadan, brothers and sisters.

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I mean, this is

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the sixth day of Ramadan.

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Two weeks have passed, half of the month is gone.

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We have, the better half left. And I know like many people, unfortunately, the level of enthusiasm and excitement that we saw at the beginning of the month, when all of a sudden the first two nights the most It was almost scope. People didn't care were a part of it, people did not use any products, they did not let any excuse turn them away from coming and connecting with their body.

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But as the month continued to progress, we started noticing this decline.

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Because somehow, somehow, our old habits caught up with us. And we will not be able to live the spirit of the month of Ramadan, we were not able to internalize

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the lessons or the principles that the multiple God reminds us of we were not able to internalize them and resist

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all kinds of factors that cause us to miss out on a lot of good deeds.

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Brothers and sisters, the reason I'm saying this is because we still have some time we have the better half of the month. We have the best 10 nights ahead of us. And we have to we have to catch

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otherwise, we will be those people who

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consider to be the worst of the losers and they're not losers, they weren't there to nurture

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the problem set it

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in a way they probably could not imagine understand how one could have the opportunity of the month of Ramadan

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at their disposal and not take advantage of it not get their sense by the end of this month forgiving.

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So we have the last 10 minutes during the nights of the whole year. And then there is very little the night of decreed because

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we have a special program for the last 10 nights mostly massages.

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Mission Viejo

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Irvine and our center here have joint activities on the 25th and 27th and the 29th ninth.

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So take advantage of those opportunities that you have when you come in

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worship in the congregation you get motivated.

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Sometimes people say no, I'm gonna stay home, it's kind of annoying to deal with a parking lot issue we come up with a phone comes with all kinds of excuses.

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So someone might say, well isn't cheap on I don't know whether or not some people, sure enough, some people have enough excuses, that they have basically brought with them from,

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from before Ramadan against Satan excuses,

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just to discourage them from going and connecting with the loss of habitat.

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In the verses that will excite during the nights of Ramadan, one message that is repeated in many sorts of parameters, such as what is your enemy, take you as an enemy.

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And don't let him bring you down.

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And remember that he has authority or no one except those who will follow the lesson. He has authority, he has no authority or power over him.

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And one of those areas where she wants to resort is taking advantage of

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those opportunities, one of those areas that she wanted to miss out on is taking advantage of those opportunities in which you can actually give for the possible loss of habitat. One of those experiences that some people might have is that, oh, you're gonna give us a compliment? Is it enough that you pay taxes, so power when it comes to our taxes, we take care of that. But when it comes to the

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two and a half percent

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of your wealth,

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which does not actually belong to,

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and that portion of your wealth, after a year becomes belongs to someone else, and you have to deliver it to children in school, don't keep it

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cheap and promises you poverty, and I must have promised to do forgiveness. So brothers and sisters, let's catch up in the month of Ramadan, we still have some time,

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we still have the opportunity ahead of us.

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And let's remember what Ramadan is all about. Now we'll conclude with this very beautiful example that was given.

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I didn't want to start with this example at the beginning of the month, because I didn't want somebody to just say, yeah, you go into this category, or that category. But one of the scholars said, when it comes to the month of formula, or when it comes to plastic, people are three levels or three categories.

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You know, he

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talks about how people have three levels of fasting or three, you have three different categories of people when it comes to fasting.

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And he left out one category of people, because they are worthless.

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In reality, they're worthless. And those are the ones who do not who neglect fasting altogether without any excuse.

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So he did not even include that category, the ones that Miss on fasting, and they neglect to accidentally turn away from. And hopefully we don't have anyone who belong to that category. But as to those people who actually observed faxing, there, there are three types. One type

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is the type that abstain from eating and drinking.

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So they take care of the technical part, they don't eat, they don't drink, they don't engage in any act that might nullify or ruin their face. They don't look anything.

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And this is the majority of or everybody that facts, there's

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nothing special about the second category is a little more special.

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And that category is the one that realizes that fantasy not only about staying away from those things, but it also has to do with with staying away from those things that might diminish them more effectively. So they they basically refrain from Acts from simple apps, they stay away from wickedness, at least while they're

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so they don't make sense. They don't lie. They don't steal, they don't watch something that was wrong. They don't listen to anything that is harmful. They don't engage in any of those simple as please stay away from them.

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And especially as this group of people is, many of them, however, they still have those tendencies. They have a craving, they still think about it, that heart is still attached to them. They're used to it, they miss it, they might even fantasize about these things that they stay away from.

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And they might get to the second to the to the to the to the third level, the level of a very special group of people.

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And that is where the person fasts, and refrains from even those tendencies, and those desires and takes him out of his heart altogether. So not only would they fast from eating, drinking, and not only with their senses, and their

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Lives switch facts from hard things, but also their hearts fast from everything other than last time and therefore focus during fasting becomes a lot, the pleasure of the law and then forgiveness from Allah and attaining salvation and attain this level of piety and virtue. That's the most common Radek, make use of that category and help us capture the rest of the month.

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